The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

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treasury have increased s6.000,000 in the
past month, while there has been little
change i'll the silver circulation.
THE yacht race over the Royal Thames
tifty-mile course was won by the Thistle,
which ran the course in six hours. The
1rex covered the distance in six hours and
twenty-three minutes. The Genesta made
the trip in six hours and twenty-five min
utes.
THE fund for the relief of the sufferers
blythe Opera Comique fire in Paris amounts
to 400, 600 francs.
A RAIN and wind storm passed over
Wheeling, W. Va. on the 1st, doing much
damage to property. During the storm a
boat containing three passengers capsized
near the middle of the river, the occupants
being swept out of sight almost immedi-
ately.
A GREAT fire at Hamburg, Germany, on
the night of the 3lst, destroyed docks, YES
sells and other property amounting to mil
lions of marks.
THE coinage of the nlnts during May
amounted to a, 500, ,515, of which &, SOC, 900
were standard dollars.
A MERv dispatch says that on May 20 the
Afghans murdered fourteen Bokharan
officials at KerkI, on the Amudaria, be-
cause they refused, as alleged, to incite
the inhabitants to resist the Russian ad
vance, and that on the same day Russian
detachment occupied Kerki without oppo-
sition.
CAPTAIN JACK HUssEY, of Castle Garden,
New York, the savior of thirty -four per-
sons from drowning and the proud posses
sor of a number of medals of honor from
Congress, the Legislature and other bodies,
was fatally shot through the body the other
night by Policeman c. Hannisi. in front of
his own house No reason was assigned
for the shooting.
RAILWAY men who have made the entire
trip report that twenty-seven large iron and
wooden bridges have been washed away in
the floods of the past week between San
Antonio, Texas, and San Francisco
THE breaking of the dikes Of the Thesis
river, Austria, recently, resulted in the
submergng of fifty miles OF the Alfold
plain near Szegedin. 1t was estimated that
the damage would reach $5,O0O,0O0.
THE New York Dairy Commissioners
visited the dairy farm of Edward Brady,
in Westchester County, recently and found
his herd suffering from pleuro pneumonia.
They made an appraisal of the animals and
awarded Brady $4,000 for POO head. The
cows were all killed and the barns burned.
A REPORT of the joint special committee
recently appointed TO Investigate the ex-
tent of pleuro pneumonia IN Cook County,
H., has been published. The committee
reports that the disease exists in a limited
district in Chicago only.
THE General Synod of the Reformed
Church of the United States began five
days' session at Akron, o., ON the lst.
About 800 delegates were present.
THE German steamer Oder was wrecked
on Socotra Island, in the Indian ocean, on
May 80. The passengers and most of the
crew were saved The Oder arrived at
Shanghai April %, from Bremen, and was
probably on her way back when wrecked.
Two freight trains colided the other
morning forty miles south of Calera, Ala,
on the Louisville q Nashville railway. En-
gineer Howard Rowe and Fireman Burton
(colored) were killed outright, as was also
negro tramp, while another tramp was
fatally injured. Both trains were badly
wrecked.
The Iowa Temperance Alliance has issued
circular to the clergymen of the State
regardless of UNCONVENTIONAL lines, an
nouncing that the alliance has consented to
be the medium for the collection of funds
TO aid the prosecution in the Haddock mur-
der cases at Sioux City
STRONG protection movements develop
ing in Spain and steps have been taken to
secure the imposition of higher duties on
foreign cereals and cattle
AT a meeting of the Chicago building
trades council it was decided to call a
national convention to be held in Chicago
June 20, to effect national organization to
fight the master builders
j. J. HARRINGTON, o. Tracy, Mimi, has
been defrauded by man named Powell,
with whom he started bank, OF ST. 200.
IT is now estimated that the number of
Mexican pension claims win no; exceed
s0,0pa Of which 1900 ere widows CLAIMS.